I am very convinced that Sherilyn, who will turn 6yo next week is a right brain child. Right brain children are very creative and very imaginative and Sher fits into this category perfectly. All the free time that she has, she will hide in her room creating art and making crafts. Ask her to do her homework, she will balk, sulk and is very creative in giving excuses to evade doing it. Ask her to do Math and reading on the laptop, she will zoom right away to carry my laptop bag out. She even knows how to set up the laptop, turn it on, click on Google Chrome and choose the website that she wants to go to. She is the polar opposite from Alycia whom I think is a left brain child.
My little rascal can spend 1-2 hours on the lappie reading, playing educational games and solving Math. Give her a black and white Math book, her brain will be switched into dense mode by default.
Sherilyn solving a hidden number Math equation…
The right brain learns things in wholes rather than parts, so that child will get math concepts well, but may struggle with the details like the math facts, or checking work. In thinking styles, the right-brainer often goes by “gut feel” whereas the left-brainer prefers multiple facts before coming to a conclusion. In test taking, the left-brainer prefers the black-and-white choices presented in multiple-choice questions, while the right-brainer may prefer essay questions, where the whole picture can be given.
Eighty percent of the struggling learners are right brain dominant. Does that mean that being right brain dominant is a weakness? Not at all! As you know, Einstein was a flaming right-brainer. Then why the discrepancy? It is that most curriculum is designed to teach in a more left brain style. Workbooks, worksheets, rote memorization (math facts), timed tests, lectures, learning facts from a test, learning vocabulary by looking up the meanings of the words in a dictionary and writing it out, are all left brain activities.
If you have a child at home who is balking at doing the schoolwork that fits the description above, you probably are working with a right brain dominant child. To help this child become successful doesn’t require an entire change in curriculum but rather a change in your teaching strategies for this child. It isn’t as hard as it sounds. In fact, it’s easy, fun, and inexpensive.
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